As ethnic groups, neither the Asian-Americans nor the Pacific Islanders contribute significantly to the total AIDS cases or AIDS deaths in the United States (revisit the figure in
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to compare AIDS among Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders with other ethnic groups in the US). The "y-scale" of the figure shown below was "magnified" to be able to observe the trend of the "flat line" graph (shown in the figure in
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) for AIDS among Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders. [View other references and slides listed below.]

In the figure shown above, the actual number of AIDS cases are higher among "Asian-Americans & Pacific Islanders" than those for "American Indians & Native Alaskans". However, the combined populations of the "Asian-Americans & Pacific Islanders" were 4-5 fold greater than those of "American-Indians and Native Alaskans" during 1981-2000 (
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). Thus, the values for AIDS cases were normalized relative to the population of the major ethnic groups in the US, using population data from the
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.

Upon normalization with respect to their ethnic populations, the % AIDS cases among "Asian-Americans & Pacific Islanders" were lower, on a year-to-year basis, than those for "American-Indians and Native Alaskans" (see "bottom figure" of the figure shown below). Overall however, AIDS cases and AIDS deaths among "Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders" and "American-Indians and Native Alaskans" are very much lower than the comparable values observed among other major ethnic groups in the United States.

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UntitledAnnual reported AIDS cases (1990-2000) among "Asian & Pacific Islanders (Asian-Pac)" and "American Indians & Alaska Natives (Nat-Amer)" in the United States (US). Top fig. Raw data of annual AIDS cases.
Bottom fig: expressed as percent (%) AIDS cases relative to the corresponding population of an ethnic group in a given year. Legends: The "open square" line graph in the bottom figure, refers to the percentage (%) of the total US AIDS cases relative to the total US population in a given year.

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The percent (%) annual AIDS cases relative to the population of "Asian-Americans & Pacific Islanders" in the US is < 0.009% at its peak in 1993 and < 0.004% in 2000. These values are slightly lower compared with those observed among "American-Indians and Native Alaskans" (about 0.012% at its peak in 1995 and about 0.010% in 2000), and very much lower compared with the % AIDS cases for the entire US population (about 0.042% at its peak in 1993 and about 0.015% in 2000). They are even much lower than those observed among African-Americans (about 0.125% at its peak in 1993 and about 0.06% in 2000), Hispanics (about 0.075% at its peak in 1993 and about 0.025% in 2000), or Whites (about 0.025% at its peak in 1993 and about 0.007% in 2000). Read also the general discussion and view figure(s) in the introduction section,
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.
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Read a comparison of AIDS deaths among "Asian-Americans & Pacific Islanders" and "American-Indians and Native Alaskans".

The annual US population data (July figures, except for 2000) used in the calculations for the figures prepared specifically for
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were from the
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.

Legends: AIDS cases, deaths or people living with HIV/AIDS relative to: "Total" -- total US population; "Afr-Am" - African-Americans, also referred to as "Blacks not Hispanics" by the
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; "Asian-Pac" -- Asian-Americans & Pacific Islanders; "Hispanics" -- Hispanics, also referred to as "Hispanics not Blacks" by the
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; "Nat-Amer" -- equivalent to the "American-Indians and Native Alaskans" category of the
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, and "White" -- white Americans who are not Hispanics.

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